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Latest Fact-Checks On Jim DeMint

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Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on March 7, 2014 in an interview:
"The big Wall Street banks, the big corporations" give "many times more" political donations to Democrats than Republicans.  
False
By Tom Kertscher • April 16, 2014
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on April 3, 2014 in a broadcast of "Vocal Point":
"A lot of the move to free the slaves ... did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 15, 2014
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on June 15, 2012 in a news release:
Says President Obama's new immigration plan "is amnesty."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 20, 2012
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on August 3, 2011 in an interview with "The State" newspaper:
The debt-ceiling bill "doesn’t cut the debt. It will add about $7 trillion in new debt over the next 10 years."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2011
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on June 27, 2011 in a news release:
Says U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is responsible for "over $14 trillion in debt."
False
By Mark Naymik • July 11, 2011
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on June 26, 2011 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley":
"We've got more revenue than we ever have."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2011
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on February 16, 2011 in a blog post:
"From 2003 to 2006, 'Sesame Street' made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales."
True
By Robert Farley • February 28, 2011
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on December 7, 2010 in a radio interview:
The Obama-GOP compromise "raises taxes, it raises the death tax."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • December 13, 2010
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on May 26, 2010 in YouTube video of a floor speech:
"Ninety-four percent of the bills that pass the Senate have no debate, no vote, no amendments, no reading of the bill, no online disclosure."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2010
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on March 10, 2010 in a message on Twitter:
"House Appropriations Chair David Obey's partial earmark ban wouldn't apply to 90% of earmarks."
True
By Robert Farley • March 12, 2010
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on February 5, 2009 in a speech on the Senate floor.:
There is a provision in the economic stimulus plan that means that "students cannot meet together in their dorms, if that dorm has been repaired with this federal money, and have a prayer group or a Bible study."
False
By Robert Farley • February 13, 2009